Brazil's bars choose their customers for their politics as election nears

[Judi Lynn]

Unjabbed supporters of President Bolsonaro are banned from some pubs – but elsewhere fans can buy pizza named after him

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Ouro Preto do Oeste
Thu 6 Jan 2022 00.00 EST

Jana Santos has an unambiguous message for Jair Bolsonaro-supporting anti-vaxxers who want to sup a Moscow Mule or Caipirinha at her bar in south Brazil.

“Don’t come. We don’t want you here,” said the mixologist and bar owner who recently placed a placard at its entrance instructing unvaccinated Bolsonaristas to steer clear.

Santos, 32, said she had decided to ban unjabbed Bolsonaro followers from the Cosmos Gastrobar in Curitiba as a result of his “villainous” response to a Covid outbreak that has killed nearly 620,000 Brazilians and battered businesses such as hers.

“It was a cry from the heart – a protest against everything this president has put us through … He’s a wicked man,” the progressive publican said of Brazil’s far-right leader, who claims not to have been vaccinated and has repeatedly undermined Brazil’s immunisation campaign.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/brazils-bars-choose-their-customers-for-their-politics-as-election-nears